Various - Blowing The Fuse: 1958 - Classics That Rocked The Jukebox

The annual committee of the German record review awards has awarded the CD seriesNowadays,
when journalists talk about '50 years of pop music' they are ignoring
the fact that popular music existed prior to 1955. Pop music did not
appear from nowhere but has a rich 'pre' history. Keywords like Big Band
Sound, Gospel, Jump Blues, Vocal Groups and Boogie Woogie characterize
this period. The first eleven compact discs in the 'Blowing The
Fuse'-series are a compilation splendid in sound and detail, dealing
with important years in the progress of pop music in the range of black
r&b, imaginatively compiled by the Canadian collector and DJ Dave 'Daddy Cool' Booth, and knowledgeably annotated by Hank Williams-biographer Colin Escott.

Berlin, November 19, 2005

THE NEW GOLD STANDARD IN R&B REISSUES IS NOW COMPLETE!

Critics
raved. Finally a series that really made sense of the wealth of music
from R&B’s early years! Now that series is complete. Here are the
years 1956-1960, and here's why 'Blowing The Fuse' will be the standard
for R&B reissues now and forever!

YEARS! YEARS! YEARS! Many
companies have issued compilations of out-of-copyright recordings (ie.
records more than 50 years old). That's why you'll find that their
series stop at 1955. Bear Family's 'Blowing The Fuse' starts at the dawn
of the Post-War R&B era in 1945, and now goes through until 1960!
And, unlike the out-of-copyright labels who won't get to 1960 until
2011, we're there now because Bear Family pays the companies that own
the music

PACKAGING! PACKAGING! PACKAGING! Other labels lift
photos from old books and magazines, and commission quickie liner notes
that tell you little or nothing, and often get it wrong. Bear Family's
'Blowing The Fuse' has detailed song-by-song notes, stories behind the
songs, and incredible never-before-seen photos in huge booklets ...
booklets so big they won't even fit inside the standard plastic case.
Instead, they go in specially designed DigiPacs.

COMPILATIONS! COMPILATIONS! COMPILATIONS! Most out-of-copyright labels do their compilations from chart books compiled by Joel Whitburn. Compiling from Whitburn is the easy way out. We hired Dave 'Daddy Cool' Booth,
a guy with one of North America’s biggest R&B collections and the
dee-jay experience to know how to program music. He went through his
incredible collection and then he went through 'Billboard' year-by-year,
and picked out more than just the hits. We selected the absolute best
music, some of it never reissued on CD until now, as well as the biggest
hits, and we have no more than two songs by any artist on any CD. These
are true, properly thought-out compilations in the spirit of Guy Stevens, Paul Oliver, Mike Leadbitter, and the others who compiled groundbreaking blues/R&B LPs back in the 1960s and 1970s.

SOUND!
SOUND! SOUND! We used the absolute best sources from the original
labels, then carefully remastered for the absolute best-ever sound.

Beware! These will cost a little more than some of the out-of-copyright reissues, but they'll be worth it.

If
you're sick of R&B reissues that look and sound like a 'Proper'
mess, then go for the best. And you won't have to wait until 2011 to get
the complete story of R&B's golden years!

BCD 16711 AS - Blowing The Fuse -30 R&B Classics that rocked the Jukebox in 1956

Albumtitel: 1958 - Classics That Rocked The Jukebox

Genre
R&B, Soul

Label
BEAR FAMILY RECORDS

Price code
AS

SubGenre
R&B Music - Classic R&B

EAN: 4000127167132

weight in Kg 0.210

Artist description "Various - Blowing The Fuse"

Blowing The Fuse

R&B Classics That Rocked The Jukebox

This series is designed to reflect the best and the most influential R&B from sixteen tumultuous years. Those years, 1945-1960, saw R&B emerge from a minority interest music, still largely ghettoized, to a music that shaped the way all popular music sounded.

Every compilation is in rough chronological order, although strict sequencing by recording date is hard if not impossible because some of the dates are unknown. I attempted to adhere to a policy of one song per artist per year, although I had to break that rule for several artists, such as Louis Jordan and Fats Domino. Pop-slanted R&B artists like Billy Eckstine and Tommy Edwards as well as blues and doo wop groups are not featured prominently because of time constraints. Songs that were double- sided hits or 'Part 1' and 'Part 2' are usually represented by just one side for the same reason. In some of the later volumes, licensing restrictions meant that it was not always possible to obtain the rights to every song we would have liked to use.

I would like to acknowledge the pioneering research of Galen Gart's 'First Pressings,' Big Al Pavlow's 'R&B Book,' Joel Whitburn's 'Top R&B Singles,' Jonas Bernholm's reissues, and the files of 'Billboard' magazine, without which these compilations would have been impossible.